balance

balance has 37 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. An apparatus for weighing.
• n.. Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.
• n.. Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.
• n.. The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.
• n.. An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account.
• n.. A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).
• n.. The constellation Libra.
• n.. The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.
• n.. A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S.
• n.. To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.
• n.. To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.
• n.. To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.